"We continued to make good progress on restructuring the bank," Cryan said in the banks results statement. "However, in the past several weeks these positive developments were overshadowed by the attention around our negotiations concerning the Residential Mortgage Backed Securities matter in the United States. This had an unsettling effect. The bank is working hard on achieving a resolution of this issue as soon as possible."

Here are the main points from the bank's third quarter results:

Revenues up to 7.5 billion from 7.3 billion in the same period last year, "despite a tough interest rate environment."

Noninterest expenses halved to 6.5 billion from 13.2 billion in in the same period last year

Capital ratio (a measure of the bank's financial strength) up to 11.1% from 10.8% last quarter